polonius VS rust

Compare polonius vs rust and see what are their differences.

polonius

Defines the Rust borrow checker. (by rust-lang)

rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. (by rust-lang)
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polonius rust
31 2,683
1,254 93,041
1.7% 1.2%
0.0 10.0
7 months ago 4 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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polonius

Posts with mentions or reviews of polonius. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
  • Why do lifetimes need to be leaky?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 8 Dec 2023
    Correctness prover which uses lifetimes (Polonius).
  • Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
    5 projects | /r/rust | 6 Dec 2023
    And, well, polonius (Rust borrow checker magic) I believe is built on datalog-ish concepts: https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius
  • Why doesn't rust-analyzer reuse infrastructures of rustc?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 5 Apr 2023
    There is also polonius (https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius) which should replace the borrow checker but does not receive a lot of development resources.
  • Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2022
    This is eventually going to be a feature-complete compiler, targeting a specific rustc version. I believe the plan is to use polonius [1], presumably as an "optional" feature so they can build a stage 1 without it, use that to build polonius, then build the final compiler with it included.

    [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius

  • Blog post: Rust in 2023
    4 projects | /r/rust | 12 Dec 2022
    E.g. there you may just stop using current borrow-checker and switch to Polonius.
  • What are Rust’s biggest weaknesses?
    7 projects | /r/rust | 17 Nov 2022
    The borrow checker is too dumb (https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius) fixes a lot of this.
  • Datafrog: A lightweight Datalog engine in Rust
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022
    It looks like an official borrow checker implementation called Polonius uses it as a dependency, so it makes sense: https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius/blob/981785c101b68ff54...
  • Differential Datalog: a programming language for incremental computation
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2022
    If you click around a little, you end up on a blog post with this tidbit:

    > This project got put together rather suddenly, in response to some work the Rust folks are doing[1] on their new and improved borrow checker.

    I don't think I could tell you more than "Frank wrote it to help rust folks who were previously doing work with differential-dataflow directly."

    1. https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius/pull/36#issuecomment-3...

  • Generic associated types to be stable in Rust 1.65
    3 projects | /r/programming | 28 Oct 2022
    Good news is that there's also works going on to relax the restrictions, like polonius. But it seems that it still have a long way to go before it can land in stable Rust...
  • Rust for Linux officially merged
    7 projects | /r/programming | 4 Oct 2022
    GCC-rs isn't intended for bootstrapping, it is intended to be an actual fully featured Rust compiler in the future, mrustc is a Rust compiler intended for bootstrapping though. GCC-rs is still very early targeting an older version of the reference compiler without things like a borrow checker, but that's not going to be the case forever. The GCC-rs folks have expressed interest in re-using the borrow checker library used by the reference compiler called polonius enabling them to relatively easily add borrow checking.

rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-28.
  • Create a Custom GitHub Action in Rust
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Apr 2024
    If you haven't dipped your touch-typing fingers into Rust yet, you really owe it to yourself. Rust is a modern programming language with features that make it suitable not only for systems programming -- its original purpose, but just about any other environment, too; there are frameworks that let your build web services, web applications including user interfaces, software for embedded devices, machine learning solutions, and of course, command-line tools. Since a custom GitHub Action is essentially a command-line tool that interacts with the system through files and environment variables, Rust is perfectly suited for that as well.
  • Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
    Here's an example of someone citing a disagreement between CRT and shell32:

    https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44650

    This in addition to the Rust CVE mentioned elsewhere in the thread which was rooted in this issue:

    https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

    Here are some quick programs to test contrasting approaches. I don't have examples of inputs where they parse differently on hand right now, but I know they exist. This was also a problem that was frequently discussed internally when I worked at MSFT.

        #include 
  • I hate Rust (programming language)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
    > instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.

    Yeah, they didn't follow the instructions and got burned. I still think that multiple things went wrong simultaneously for that experience. I wonder if more prevalent uses of `#[doc(alias = "name")]` being leveraged by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120730 (which now that I check only accounts for methods and not functions, I should get on that!) so that when changing APIs around people at least get a slightly better experience.

  • Rust Weird Exprs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024
  • Critical safety flaw found in Rust on Windows (CVE-2024-24576)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
  • Unformat Rust code into perfect rectangles
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    Almost fixed the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123325
  • Implement React v18 from Scratch Using WASM and Rust - [1] Build the Project
    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2024
    Rust: A secure, efficient, and modern programming language (omitting ten thousand words). You can simply follow the installation instructions provided on the official website.
  • Show HN: Fancy-ANSI – Small JavaScript library for converting ANSI to HTML
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
    Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's rendering of changes in the SVG (text, side-by-side, swiping) but https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121877/files has newly added SVGs.

    To see what is supported, see the screenshot in the docs: https://docs.rs/anstyle-svg/latest/anstyle_svg/

  • Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
    17 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    We strongly believe in Rust as a powerful language for building production-grade software, especially for systems like ours that run alongside Kubernetes.
  • What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust?
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Mar 2024
    The above Assert<{N % 2 == 1}> requires #![feature(generic_const_exprs)] and the nightly toolchain. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76560 for more info.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing polonius and rust you can also consider the following projects:

chalk - An implementation and definition of the Rust trait system using a PROLOG-like logic solver

carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)

rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

rustc_codegen_gcc - libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc

Odin - Odin Programming Language

miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation

Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

rust-blog - Educational blog posts for Rust beginners

Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer